Southern Agrarians
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The Southern Agrarians were a group of early 20th-century American writers and intellectuals who championed traditional Southern rural values and criticized industrialization and modernity, most notably through their 1930 manifesto "I'll Take My Stand."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Southern Agrarians canonical | 4 |
| Southern Agrarianism | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural movement
ⓘ
intellectual group ⓘ literary movement ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Nashville, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| critiqued |
mass culture
ⓘ
technological progress as an end in itself ⓘ |
| focus |
critique of industrial capitalism
ⓘ
critique of urbanization ⓘ defense of traditional Southern rural life ⓘ |
| formedAround | Vanderbilt University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | interwar period ⓘ |
| ideology | agrarianism ⓘ |
| influenced |
New Criticism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
postwar Southern literature ⓘ |
| keyTextType | manifesto ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre |
criticism
ⓘ
essay ⓘ |
| member |
Allen Tate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Andrew Lytle NERFINISHED ⓘ Cleanth Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald Davidson NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Lawrence Owsley NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Blue Kline NERFINISHED ⓘ Herman Clarence Nixon NERFINISHED ⓘ James McBride Dabbs NERFINISHED ⓘ John Crowe Ransom NERFINISHED ⓘ John Gould Fletcher NERFINISHED ⓘ Lyle H. Lanier NERFINISHED ⓘ Nash Burger NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Penn Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ Stark Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movementAlsoKnownAs | Fugitives and Agrarians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | I'll Take My Stand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
industrialization
ⓘ
modernity ⓘ |
| positionOnEconomy | preference for small-scale agriculture ⓘ |
| positionOnSociety | emphasis on community and tradition ⓘ |
| precededBy | Fugitive Poets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfNotableWork | 1930 ⓘ |
| relatedField |
American studies
ⓘ
literary criticism ⓘ |
| relatedMovement | Southern Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
anti-modernism
ⓘ
conservatism ⓘ regionalism ⓘ |
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Southern Agrarianism